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- Maryland 4H Education Center
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- Black Hill Regional Park
- Central MD Research and Education Center (CMREC)
- Damascus, Izaak Walton League
- Bonnet Farm
- Fort Detrick
- Fox Haven Farm
- Hashawha Environmental Center
- Lyles Farm, Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission
- Hampstead Bypass, State Highway Adm. (SHA)
- Monocacy River Natural Resources Management Area
- Bethesda-Chevy Chase Chapter, Izaak Walton League
- Rockville Chapter, Izaak Walton League
- Savage River State Forest
- Southern Maryland, Charles County Soil Conservation District
- Sugarloaf Mountain
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- WSSC 1 – Backcross Orchard (Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission)
- WSSC 2 – Research Orchard (Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission)
- WSSC 3 – Seed Orchard (Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission)
- Western Maryland Research and Education Center (WMREC)
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Join the VA chapter for a science presentation, orchard tour and seed give away! This meeting is open to the public and will take place on December 6th at Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve from 1pm-4pm.
Stop by and get some free wild-type American chestnut seeds!
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What kind of American chestnut seeds?
Very cool! Have fun everyone who can go!
their is one kind only
We are thankful for each and everyone of you!
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Someday hope there will be enough trees to give chestnuts to make dressing.
Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁🥧🦃🍂
Follow us to learn more about the blight and what to do if this happens to a tree near you!
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I believe I have a few resistant chestnut trees that have produced their second crop of seeds . They are descendants of those once in living in .Valley Garden Park
The American Chestnut Foundation. If we don't figure out the tree of heaven problem then we won't have anything but ailanthus altissima and your research will be a waste.
Send me few, I'll plant them
Holiday cheer is brewing! 🎄🍺 TACF staff joined Sweetbay Brewing’s Patrick Atkins in Abingdon, VA, as he demonstrated how Meadowview-ground American chestnut seeds are being used to craft a rich brown ale for our Chestnuts Roasting & Christmas Market celebration on December 13. Join us for local flavor, music, and chestnut-inspired holiday fun! #AmericanChestnut #SweetbayBrewing #ChestnutsRoasting #HolidayCheers #MeadowviewResearchFarms #AbingdonVA #ForestRestoration
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Kirk🌰🍺!
Join us tomorrow, November 21, 2025, from 11:30AM – 1:00PM (ET), for the next LIVE Chestnut Chat webinar.
Our special guest, Dr. Jessica Rutkoski, is a small grains breeder with a talent for explaining the fundamentals of breeding and quantitative genetics. In her talk, she will describe how modern tools such as genomic selection and high-throughput phenotyping can speed up improvement for multiple traits—and how these technologies can be effectively applied to TACF’s American chestnut breeding program. Jessica is a quantitative geneticist and leads the winter wheat breeding program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
To register, visit: tacf.org/event/chestnut-chat-faster-genetic-gain/
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Will be recording be made available later for those of us who cannot attend midday?